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Published June 24, 2012 Sunday Gleaner Amitabh Sharma Contributor W hat is art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the real, said Indian poet, playwright and painter Rabindranath Tagore; a phrase that encapsulates Jacquelyne Hussey-Pearson's life and work, where she pours all her emotions inspired by the vastness around her. This multifaceted artist's life story is like a palette, glowing rich colours, mixed with speckles of grey, and exuding grit and courage. A breast cancer survivor, she has never let physical pain affect her, and instead, she has immersed herself into putting more colour and creating larger-than-life images. "I am a very blessed spirit and the people around me encourage me and I am enhanced by critique because it can always turn my work into (something) positive," she said. Abstracts have been her forte since she started painting, from capturing Hurricane Katrina's landfall in New Orlea

Published June 10, 2012 Sunday Gleaner Inspiration comes in forms and packages, and sometimes at places which may just pass our eyes and imagination. For Kimone Myers, it struck in one of the many trips to the craft market in Colombia, the designs of the crafts and jewellery whipped her imagination. Armed with an 'aim and shoot' digital camera, Myers started exploring the shutterbug in her. The myriad of ideas for this budding jewellery designer doesn't come from the vastness of the space, but finding intricacy in simple objects. Soon bottles, labels, designs, started developing and framing in her lenses. "I get fascinated by objects," Myers, who's a self-taught photographer, said. "I love to explore details, study an object, like a close-up of a bottle, flowers, scrap metal." She believes that her photographs highlight the 'not so obvious' and things that "we tend to take for granted". Colombia, she said, is where she r